Free Stuff

It’s always fun to give away free stuff, so I decided to have a page that keeps all of it in one place. Of course I hope you buy a copy of the book, but in the meantime please check out the free stuff:

Video Interviews

We have already done more than a dozen video interviews with thought leaders and innovators – see them here.

Free Sample Chapter

As promised, I would like to give you all a free sample chapter from my new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire to thank you for following and supporting my contributions to the innovation community. I hope you enjoy the sample chapter and consider purchasing the book as a way of supporting my future writing efforts.

I truly believe in the power of the Nine Innovation Roles, and because of this belief I’ve created and uploaded a simple worksheet for people to use. I only ask one thing in return from those who download and use the worksheet is that you send me your aggregate data so that I can collate it together with the data from others for a future article on the distribution of tendencies. Also, there is a set of Nine Innovation Roles playing cards and exercises in the works. Stay tuned!

Braden Kelley’s 50 Question Innovation AuditInstructions

Read each statement and determine how much you agree with each one, using this scale:

0 – None

1 – A Little

2 – Partially

3 – Often

4 – Fully

Select the answer for each question that is most appropriate.

The form will score the audit and return a result to you via email along with the SCORING KEY and INNOVATION MATURITY MODEL image you see below

Store the result as a baseline and come back annually and re-take the audit to measure your progress!

Point totals are translated to the innovation maturity model as follows:

000-100 = Level 1 – Reactive

101-130 = Level 2 – Structured

131-150 = Level 3 – In Control

151-180 = Level 4 – Internalized

181-200 = Level 5 – Continuously Improving

Image adapted from the book Innovation Tournaments by Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich

Second Option

If you would prefer you can download the Innovation Audit I promised in Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire as a Microsoft Excel workbook. I hope you find this innovation audit of use, and I thank you for buying the book!

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